Indians On The Net
June 28, 2008
A mere Web site or a laptop doesn’t empower the underprivileged. Developing countries like India need technology, yes, but what they need more are coherent projects with reliable delivery systems that link technology to the country’s needs.
A Reuters story, ‘Indian village uploads itself onto Internet,’ was picked up by a vast number of newspapers around the world. What was meant by ‘uploads’, was that Hansdehar: Pop. 1753, the north Indian village in question, had gone and got itself a Web site. So, in this day and age of rapid technology, you may well ask what is the big deal about a village in India getting a web site. A whole deal, because how many villages where a majority of Indian live have an Internet connection, leave alone an Internet life?
The village doesn’t have a single Internet connection, though the article says one is ‘imminent’. Hansdehar village has only two computers, and on one of which a villager is learning to type. With only two high schools, no medical clinic but a primary health centre three kilometres outside the village, the uploaded village paints a gloomy picture. Yet, the villagers believe that having a web site will somehow revolutionize their lives. “Now we can put our problems on the Web site, and then the government can’t say ‘we didn’t know’,” so said one villager. Sorry mate, hate to dash your hopes to the ground, not only does the government know, it doesn’t care.
But, no matter as the younger inhabitants of the village dream of an Internet connection that will connect them to a different world of Indian society, online chatting, online socialising, and better still help hasten their exit by searching online for college places and jobs in big cities.
And meanwhile, the cell phone is becoming the primary medium for Indians to connect to the Net. Indians accessing Internet through their mobile phones is now thrice as much as those using the PC to connect to the Web. With 9.27 million Internet subscribers, Indians are becoming glued to Internet, they read and reply to mails, download content and make online transactions, all over the Net.
Indians have also turned the Internet into a medium for finding suitable marriage partners, indulging in online social chatting, catching up with friends and family across the Great Divide i.e. NRIs. The Internet life of Indians is the same as the Internet life of others hooked on Internet around the world. They Gmail internet friends, search Google for information or shop online to beat the crowded malls and stores.
Even Indian villagers with Internet connections are getting Internet savvy. The advent of the computer and Internet has allowed them to eliminate the middle man. Indians are just as hooked on Internet as is the rest of the world!
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